A moulded porcelain snuff bottle

Jingdezhen Imperial Kilns 景德镇官窑, Jiaqing mark and period, 嘉慶 1796–1820
Height: 7.1 cm

Moulded porcelain decorated in various colored enamels and iron-red, depicting an official and his entourage aboard a junk sailing across scrolling waters, the other side depicting a dragon among clouds, a tiger and two warriors, the short cylindrical foot with a Jiaqing nian zhi (made during the Jiaqing period) mark in iron-red.

For an almost identical example with the same subject, see Sotheby's New York, The Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, 15 September 1998.

Provenance 起源: Linda F. Crawley

Published 发布: Asiantiques, A Fascination for Miniatures: The Linda F. Crawley Collection of Chinese Snuff (2008), cat. no. 90

Ref. 1003217

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